The masked magician about that foreign magic show.

the real name of the masked magician is Val Valentino. From 1996 to 1998, he filmed a series of "Magic Secret" programs for Fox Broadcasting Company (formerly known as: Breaking the Magicians' Code: Magic's Biggest Secrets finally revealed). Because he put on a mask in the film, he claimed that he wanted to "keep his identity secret", so later, before his identity was exposed, people in the magic circle used ".

The Magic Secret program is a series of programs with the theme of large-scale illusion magic commonly seen on TV. In each short paragraph, the masked magician first demonstrates a magic performance, and then explains the magic secret to the audience, including the structure of props and the techniques used by the magician. Because exposing the secrets of magic is against the magician's principle, the practice of this program immediately shocked the magic circle, and some magician's unions in some areas launched a protest. China CCTV also showed some programs, but they were stopped because of protests from the Chinese magic circle.

Most rumors tend to describe masked magicians as "traitors" or "wanted criminals" in the magic world, and interpret this series of programs as "acts that cause great harm to the magic world", but this kind of interpretation may be exaggerated and unfair.

As a matter of fact, val valentino used to be a professional magician working in Las Vegas, and he has every reason to believe that he has a certain degree of knowledge and understanding of magic professional ethics. Moreover, the production of Magic Secret, a program to crack magic, was not his original intention, but the idea of Michael Darnell, vice president of FOSS TV at that time, and his producer. Because the TV station needed someone to play the magician (and perhaps provide consultation at the same time), they turned to Farr after being rejected by many people. Farr was unwilling to take such a job at first, but after many consultations, he reluctantly agreed to perform on the premise of "exposing only old illusions" (that is, those old tricks that are old and no longer used by magicians today). But even so, the show was attacked by public opinion, which made Farr, who had planned to perform five episodes, resign and stop performing in the fourth episode. In order to avoid public opinion, he immigrated to Brazil and Japan to find a job, but they were all very unsuccessful. There was no further news about him after that.

It is also a questionable question whether the program "Magic Secret" has really brought great impact to the magic world. Some people think that exposing some ancient magic secrets appropriately is helpful to promote thinking, get rid of superstition and magic, and improve the positive effect of the overall magic atmosphere, not all of which are bad. And after knowing these secrets, the audience will not necessarily lose their interest and curiosity in magic, because when they see that modern magicians have made many new performances that are obviously impossible to complete by those methods, they will only feel more admiration for those magicians. Later, with the street magician david brian becoming famous on TV, FOSS TV also produced cracking programs for his performances, but it turns out that those programs did not affect David's fame. However, in any case, cracking other people's magic will really destroy the entertainment of magic.